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Humbles, of Bellinghain, were noted salmon leisterers in our 

 own days. Eleven years before this time, viz., in 1268, it was 

 presented tbat a great destruction took place, in the waters of 

 the country, of the salmon as they ascended the rivers to spawn. 

 It was therefore provided that, from the feast of St. Michael 

 (29th September), to that of St. Andrew (30th November), no 

 net be drawn or put into the weirs or pools, and that no one fish 

 in tbe Tyne, Wansbeck, or Coquet, or other waters, with nets, 

 " stirkeldis," or any other engines during that time. And that, 

 from the 1st of May, to the 24th of June, no net is to be used, 

 unless its meshes are large enough for the smelts (salmunculi) 

 to get through. And lastly, in 1293, persons were presented for 

 having weirs too high for salmon to pass over. Of remarkable 

 names we have culled a few out of both Iters, viz., Emma 

 Wytherape, Gunnoca of the Mill, Grota, Aycusa de Goffeden, 

 Idonea (wife of Adam Swynburne), Elyas Blessedblod, Thomas 

 Smalfick, John Dulpinthedrit, Symon Wildegos, Adam Schake- 

 harpe, Michael Lyteskyte, of Bellingham ; and lastly, Adam 

 Aydrunken, who handled his boat so clumsily, on the waters of 

 the Tyne, that he upset it, and thereby drowned Beatrix, his 

 wife. If his habits corresponded to his name, the good woman 

 should have known better than to trust herself in the same boat 

 with him. 



XVII. — Meteorological Report for 1865. Edited by Geo. Clay-, 

 ton Atkinson, Esq. 



January. — A fine month, with a general fall of the barometer, 

 from 29-828 at the beginning, till the 14th; when, at eight a.m., 

 it indicated 28-123 at Wylam, which is ninety-six feet above the 

 sea. The barometer at the Literary and Philosophical Society at 

 Newcastle stood, at nine a.m., at 28-236; and Mr. G. Wailes', 

 at Burghfield House, Gateshead, at 28-342. I have never seen 

 the barometer so low. 



